Omaha, Nebraska

This weeks General Land Office, Record of the Week, covers Omaha, Nebraska and the first Deputy Surveyor in the Nebraska territory, William Newton Byers!

Omaha was founded on July 4, 1854, near the juncture of the Platte and Missouri Rivers in the newly designated Nebraska Territory. Read more about the interesting facts in the ArcGIS StoryMaps Record of the Week.

The GLO web site provides live access to Federal land conveyance records for the Public Land States, including image access to more than 12 million Federal land title records issued between 1788 and the present.

The site also hosts images of survey plats and field notes, land status records, and control document index records, and is the most visited website in the Department of the Interior. Visit glorecords.blm.gov for more information.